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Article: This Side of Innocence. (Arabic).
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- World Literature Today
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- June 22, 2001
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Rashid al-Daif. This Side of Innocence Paula Haydar, tr. Adnan Haydar, Michael Beard, afterword. New York. Interlink 2001. 152 pages. $12.95 ISBN 1-56656-383-6
IN THE LAST twenty years, Rashid al-Daif (b. 1945) has published ten novels, some of which have been translated into other languages. His novel Azizi al-Sayyid Kawabata (2995) was rendered into eight European languages, and his Fusha Mustahdafa bayn an-Nu'as wa al-Nawm (2986) was made into a French movie in Switzerland. A Lebanese from a Maronite family, he teaches Arabic language and literature at the Lebanese University in Beirut and also writes poetry.
In This Side of Innocence (Arabic: Nahiyat ...